Word: shakspearian
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...trifle below the Advocate's usual standard, although the triolet entitled "Leigh Hunt" is much the better of the two poems. "A Winter Song" could hardly be called a poem, however, for there is not a poetical image, simile, or turn of thought in the whole song, and the Shakspearian specificness of diction at which the author aims cannot be said to be happily attained...
...these papers is readable, and, we should judge, of immediate interest to the students. Would that we could say the same of all our college journals! There's the Amherst Student for one, out of many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter, why not either shorten the paper or publish none...
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